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Heracles carrying his son Hyllus looks at the centaur Nessus, who is about to carry Deianira across the river on his back. Antique fresco from Pompeii Guido Reni, Abduction of Deianira, 1620–21, Louvre Museum Enrique Simonet, Nessus and Deianira, 1888 2006 picture of Laurent Marqueste's statue of Nessus struck by an arrow while carrying off Deianeira Heracles and Nessus by Giambologna, (1599), Florence.
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